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Introduction to Unix (Linux, OSX, FreeBSD,
…….)
Des Johnston, Heriot-Watt University
Postgraduate student training course, Perth 2007
• Ought to be a really short talk
• Type “introduction to Unix” or “introduction to Linux” into Google......
• http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/
• http://wwwhomes.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wjk/UnixIntro/
• A little bit of history
• Why UNIX (*NIX)
• The “shell”
• Finding your way around
• A more modern veneer
What I will do...
Why Aren’t we all paying Bill?
Kernighan Ritchie Thompson
Because of these men with beards
And this man with a beard
Richard Stallman - GNU
Linus Torvalds Steve Jobs
And these men without beards
1995 Windows 95
1993 Windows NT
2001 Windows XP
1990 Windows 3.0
2007 Windows Vista
ancient times DOS
What did we see? DOS
Windows 3.11
What do we see now? WinXP
Windows Vista
Ubuntu Linux
Fedora Linux
OpenSuSE Linux
OSX
• cd some_directory/
• cd ../
• cd
• cd /a_path_to_somewhere/
• cd ~des
• lpr
• lpq
• dvips
Printing Things
• |
• >
Stringing it all together......
• !
• Tab completion
• man
• apropos
Arcana
• It wasn’t a short talk - sorry
• Type “introduction to Unix” or “introduction to Linux” into Google......
• http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/
• http://wwwhomes.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wjk/UnixIntro/
The End